Customer Reviews
"Mustard? Now Let's Not Be Silly." - By: Mark Baker, 12 Dec 2008 
One day while Alice (voiced by Kathryn Beaumont) is trying to pay attention to her lessons, she sees a White Rabbit (Bill Thompson) go by. This is no ordinary White Rabbit, however. He's looking at his pocket watch & worrying about being late. Curious, Alice follows him only to fall down a hole & landin Wonderland.
And what sort of place is Wonderland? It's a place where anything & everything can talk. Besides the animals, we've got a talking doorknob. Eating & drinking can make Alice grow & shrink. As she tries to follow the White Rabbit & find out where he is going, she meets Tweedledum & Tweedledee (J. Pat O'Malley), joins an Unbirthday Party with the Mad Hatter (Ed Wynn) & the March Hare (Jerry Colonna), has a couple run ins with the Cheshire Cat (Sterling Holloway), gets lostin a strange wood, & has plays crochet with the Queen of Hearts (Verna Felton). Will she ever get home?
It had been years since I'd seen this, so I had forgotten just how many songs there arein the movie. Just about every character sings one at some point. But there is a reason you don't remember most of them. They're just okay.
Really, this movie is just a series of adventures loosely held together by the White Rabbit. While that works for the books this movie is based on, it doesn't work quite as well here. I tend to get bored before we meet up with the Queen. Still, there are several funny scenes & several enjoyable songs.
Honestly, I enjoyed it more then I remember enjoying it. The kids will particularly love this wacky tale.
Exceptional rendition of classic story - By: Mr. Thomas Thatcher, 26 Sep 2008 
It is almost unbelievable, but a cursory reading of some of the reviews would suggest that some Amazon customers have not read, or even heard of, the Lewis Carroll classics "Alice Through The Looking Glass" & "Alice In Wonderland."
This film is one of the most mature & thoughtful of all Disney films, & manages to capture some of the dreamy, frightening, enchanting & nightmarish atmosphere of the books. Alice is a children's storyin name only: it is best described as a semi-benign nightmare of epic proportions.
Alice's chase down the rabbit hole leads to her encounters with many odd characters culled from both books, from Tweedle Dum & Tweedle Dee to the Walrus & the Carpenter to the Cheshire Cat & the Caterpillar. Much has been made of the caterpillar with the hookah, not without some justification, one feels, & likewise the Cheshire Cat - all very surreal & distant. When Alice grows very quickly after eating the biscuit, the next 10 minutes of images are beyond all doubt of an extremely lewd nature, & once you have grasped this it becomes very obvious. I am astonished that Disney got away with it as it is so blatant, but it is charmingly done ..... I have always thought this but have seen it suggested elsewherein print only recently.
The musicin the DVD is very good & the voices are just superb. Alice's precise, confused, petulant & adolescent nature is well-captured by the ever-excellent Kathryn Beaumont. Disney Stalwart Pat O'Malley sings & acts his way through the filmin superb form (T Dum & T Dee, Walrus & Carpenter)and Sterling Holloway is as classy as ever. Songs that really work are "Unbirthday" "Painting the Roses Red" "Father William" & many others.
Highly recommended, & any film that has one Dink Trout as the King of Hearts gets my vote. Probably the closest Disney ever came to getting the right "feel" to a film &in places this is actually pretty subversive. Watch it again with a very open mind .............. twee it ain't.
The weirdest film I've ever seen? - By: Mutian, 26 May 2008 
Alice In Wonderland isn't your average Disney film. It starts off with the posh girl singing with the plantsin some park & then daydreams & is sucked into a loopy world where she goes through hundreds of doors & meets loads of odd characters ranging from the loveable white rabbit, the annoying mad hatter & the funny Queen of Hearts.
It's not a disney film that I'd recommend for those just getting into disney as it lacks the innocence & you really have to watch it to understand it whereas the true classics are just great forms of escapism as well as wonderful films. This one however may indeed leave youin Wonderland wondering what on earth it's all about & questioning whether it was worth the money or not. Buy The Little Mermaid, Mulan, Cinderella, Toy Story, Hercules or Mary Poppins instead if you haven't already as those won't disappoint.
ENTERTAINING DISNEY CLASSIC - By: stuart, 11 Oct 2007 On a warm summer afternoon, Alice is playing with her cat when she spots a white rabbit complaining that he is late for something. Curious, Alice follows the Rabbit & falls down the rabbit-hole. When she reaches the bottom of the hole, she finds herselfin a crazy world where everything is topsy-turvy. She meets Tweedledee & Tweedledum. She discovers that certain foods can make her grow taller or smaller. She meets the ever-grinning Cheshire Cat. She joins the Mad Hatter & the March Harein their crazy tea party. Alice finally meets the loud-mouthed Queen of Hearts, who challenges her to a croquet match, which is stopped short when Alice is accused of playing a prank on the Queen. After causing a disruptionin her court trial, Alice wakes up, realizing that she had dreamed the whole thing.
Walt Disney, ever since the 1930's, had always wanted to adapt Lewis Carroll's classic books to the screen, but had problems with the story. When he finally got the chance, he was disappointed with the result, & the film, unfortunately, was a box office failure. But the film is entertaining nonetheless. The characters are wonderfully brought to life, just the way Lewis Carroll wrote them. Wonderland is beautifully drawn, with the Disney animators giving it just the right amount of fantasy. The songs (some of which are adaptations of poems foundin the ALICE books) are fun, especially "A Very Merry Unbirthday"! The voice talent is perfect, with Kathryn Beaumount (later to become Wendyin Disney's PETER PAN) as Alice, Jerry Colonna as the March Hare, Ed Wynn (at his best) as the Mad Hatter, & Verna Felton (the fairy godmotherin Disney's Cinderella, Aunt Sarahin LADY AND THE TRAMP) as the Queen of Hearts. Overall, this is one of Disney's best! Recommended. 10/10.
Down the rabbit hole.. - By: Ms. M. Anastasiou, 11 May 2006 A true disney classic.It holds elements of fatansy, creativity & imagination which modern Disney seems to lack, & that is simply what makes this film so very charming & timeless.
